The Burton Holmes lectures; . IN INK MA/lv 1)1 ki;EKINr. ALLEYS FEZ 199 influences of the school, many reforms in customs remainto be effected, and it is to be hoped that in the future,a daughter of the Mellah ^vill not be given in marriage atthe age of ten and, Hke one girl we saw, be mother of afamily at fourteen years of age, and become at twenty-fivea hideous old woman. Let us hope that in another genera-tion girl-children who at fourteen are still unmarried willnot be regarded, as they are to-day, in the light of hopelessspinsters. As for the sanitary reforms demanded in the Mellah, youha
The Burton Holmes lectures; . IN INK MA/lv 1)1 ki;EKINr. ALLEYS FEZ 199 influences of the school, many reforms in customs remainto be effected, and it is to be hoped that in the future,a daughter of the Mellah ^vill not be given in marriage atthe age of ten and, Hke one girl we saw, be mother of afamily at fourteen years of age, and become at twenty-fivea hideous old woman. Let us hope that in another genera-tion girl-children who at fourteen are still unmarried willnot be regarded, as they are to-day, in the light of hopelessspinsters. As for the sanitary reforms demanded in the Mellah, youhave but to enter the crowded streets to be convinced thatthey are numberless. Here Jews are packed like live sar-dines in greasy boxes. Pierre Loti describes the Mellah asan airless huddle of houses squeezed together as if screwedin a compress, and emitting all sorts of stifling odors.
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